Idk about other countries but i assume it's equally idiotic everywhere: Here in sweden we charge companies for access to railways.

we still don't have functional generic voice and gesture controls, computers don't even fucking come with a clap-on-clap-off function for fuck's sake

just rent a car then?

in the rest of the world we just go rent a car for towing with

"Please reboot, your kernel has 15 vulnerabilities. please"

Ironically he seems to have been one of the most normal historical people in general:
"Euler was known as a generous and kind person, not neurotic as seen in some geniuses, keeping his good-natured disposition even after becoming entirely blind."

Weirdest thing i can find about him is that he married his wife's half-sister after his wife died, which is only slightly "huh" worthy.

(Content warning: Swedish)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNHrWLkZJI8

This is something i love about The Expanse, the technology actually makes sense.

Most people just have a disposable phone/tablet consisting of plexiglass (just so you have something transparent to actually hold) and a little square in a corner (which is all the actual hardware and projects a holographic interface ontop of the plexiglass), which acts much like an oldschool terminal for a central mainframe system, and you just use it like normal except it can also detect gestures around it.
Next most normal is larger versions of this mounted on the walls, which you can just swipe stuff onto from other devices and interact with more like a TV except your hand is the remote.
And that's like 90% of what people actually use, fancy 3d holographic stuff is only used when the 3d aspect is actually helpful, like visualizing the solar system or if you wanna play a board game or something like that.

And actually i almost feel this moreso for Subnautica 2, the tech in that game actually feels really sensibly futuristic to me. I struggle to put into words what exactly makes it feel so natural but i think generally, it's the same thing as how we have super advanced technology IRL yet most of the stuff we actually use day-to-day are just better versions of what was used in the past.
Candles were replaced with gas lamps, then incandescent flashlights, and now you just use the LED on your phone. Subnautica 2 does that with most of the technology and it's so fucking satisfying.

nanomachine tech, obviously

It's not gene manipulation if you build a new body and transfer your consciousness into it

am i the only one who thinks "volta" sounds much much worse as a unit? Like, there's a reason people say "amp" instead of "ampere", we don't like saying needlessly long words all the time.
Even if you change the official name i'm almost certain it'll just get shortened back down.

Have you missed all the people who are quite vocal about this being shit? It's not the death of human progress, it's the well deserved death of corporate progress.

They look slightly miserable because it's a photo of a specific moment, half a second after they probably looked completely normal and happy